“MIRROR” SELF-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

1. “Here in my hand I hold the mirror. My facilitator told me that I should be true to myself like the mirror is true to me. I must love myself. Love is not about sex but just loving because of loving. I should and want to care for others.” Participant 1. Programme Description This programme focuses on developing emotional intelligence amongst the participants. The “Mirror” programme is a modularized 12-week behaviour change programme addressing risky behaviour amongst children and adolescents. The programme focuses on self development through reflection and narrative therapy techniques that is aimed at normalising the participant’s environment and lives. Reflection therapy is used by confronting the children indirectly through their own image in the mirror. This is combined with “storytelling” as another reflection technique. Through these and other techniques the participants are empowered to share their own stories through a dialogue circle and evidently meet their true selves. 2. ProgrammeDelivery This progamme can be facilitated in two ways: 1) As an open programme, where every module can be facilitated as a separate workshop and participants can enter at any time and get recognition for the sessions they have attended. This generally works in an awaiting trial environment where participants often don’t get to complete programmes as they attend court and are released or sentenced. 2) As a closed programme with “learn to play”, “elastic soccer” and “creative dance” activities as home work activities – programmes run in street children shelters, places of safety or with children at risk in schools. This programme is facilitated over 12 sessions of 3 hours each. It may be facilitated once or twice a week but time should be allocated for portfolio- and recreational activities to unlearn violent/aggressive or addictive behaviour. If and when possible staff will also be empowered to form part of this intensive process. “MIRROR” SELF-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

2. 3. Target Audience This programme was developed for children at risk or in conflict with the law between the ages of 12 and 18 years for e.g. awaiting trial youth, street children, children in places of safety, children in Schools of Industries or any other children who have behavioural problems relating to criminal behaviour or drug addiction. The programme may be facilitated to a younger audience if a skilled facilitator is available. 4. Programme Content • Programmeintroduction • What are rights, rules and restorative justice? • My country and my community • What are values? • What are germs? • What can drugs do to me? • Who can I trust? • Who am I? • How do I feel what I feel? • How do I control what I feel? • How do I learn to love? • Programmeclosure 5. Monitoring and Evaluation Assessment tools are used during the programme deliver: 1. Pre and post assessment forms. 2. Assessment done by participants after every session. 3. Assessment done by facilitator after every session. 5. Case Study “At the age of 12,” says SiphoMagwatso, “I ran away from home because my mother used to hit me very badly and there was no other family to take care of me. I lived on the streets, using drugs and prostituting myself to survive. When I was 15 I was arrested for shoplifting and placed in a correctional facility where I awaited trial and found Khulisa running the “Mirror” programme. Until then I didn’t know anything about my rights or what love was and I carried many secrets inside me that were painful. The Khulisa facilitator taught me to see good things about myself and how to look after myself and keep safe.” “MIRROR” SELF-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME